Done. I thought of the Pi but wasn't sure if it would run XBMC well, but I guess it does.

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what about the actual performance. Im building this for a guy. Im building his server running XBMC that will store his 800+ Movies and TV shows. It will then serve them up to his 5 or so TVs in HD. So, I need to make sure it is cost effective and reasonable.

It is just out of your price range, but I think it is the best solution for what you want.

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wow, i have never seen that before.

interesting though they excluded a 10/100/1000 connection. you won't get a solid 1080p video stream without the ability to hit 150mbit/s. or you could compress it down to piss making it pointless at 1080p.

interesting though they excluded a 10/100/1000 connection. you won't get a solid 1080p video stream without the ability to hit 150mbit/s. or you could compress it down to piss making it pointless at 1080p.

well, my plan is to build an AMD A10 media server with ~8-16GB of DDR3 and running XMBCLive or XBMCbuntu on an 8GB SSD with several WD Red drives for the Storage. IIRC XMBC has a streaming Media Server uPnP DLNA thing right? I know it can read those servers. It will go through a good router running wifi-N. The idea is that each TV would be able to watch a separate movie/show from all the others. At the same time. I don't know if I need to build the guy a 4core PfSense router as well or not. It will all be wireless except that the Server will be wired to the router via Gigabit. They guy said that the price is not important. Just that the working reliable system is. I also have to train him how to use it.

I know this thread is very old but if anyone is interested, ive done this at home myself. I have an asus rt-n66u router with a 3tb hard drive attached to it via usb. The router shares files through smb share in the house or as an ftp server so my tablets and phone can still connect to it outside the house. I have 2tb of films music and tv on it. I have three ouyas. I have never played a game on them but they are without question the best xbmc box and in england theyre £80 in game now. They all have showbox installled and play 1080p video perfect. Theyre wifi is very poor, ive had to go for powerline adapters for now. I also have a dreambox 800 hdse wich is classed as a multi tuner device. With this you can put your nornal sky card ib and use it instead of the box sky send. This box will also allow 10 extra devices to connect to it through your network and watch a different channel on each. Xbmc now supports dvr and the enigma 2 boxes (which is what a dreambox is) are supported. So each of the ouyas play my full selection of sky channels through the network using xbmc as the front end player. The router i mentioned before also allows for a vpn connection to be set up. So while im out the house my ipad can connect to my hime network and xbmc installed on it can still play thr channels/2tb of films from home